For this post I'm going to define "blue piller" as "anyone programmed by bluepill thinking". Bluepill thinking is "the accepted/taught norm of gender relations".
If you live in the western world, it's increasingly likely you grew up bluepill. This happens primarily through public education, children's and teenager's TV shows, and most importantly movies. I'm almost certain a lot of the most viewed movies of the past few years are very subtle propaganda pieces used to programme teenagers from a young age. Think about how many times you've seen Mean Girls or Superbad or Twilight while growing up, especially if you were a girl at sleepovers. Films like Legally Blonde and Pitch Perfect, all subtle (or not so subtle once you've come to notice it) bluepill programming that teenage girls and boys all eventually watch if they are part of the crowd, these movies can be good en entertaining in their own respects, and still very bluepill. I think the majority of bluepill programming comes from our media. Think about how popular Friends was, or the Big Bang theory is (or was) today. We are taught to be bluepill from a young age, there are no other options presented to us. It's presented as normal in almost all media. We grow up learning to act and behave in the way we see the people on screen, because we're led to believe they are representations of the way "real" people behave.
When I first heard of TRP, I was told it was full of sexists and misogynists. I accepted that. I went over to the sub and I enjoyed the outrage porn for a while. I couldn't believe guys like this existed. I couldn't even believe Reddit would allow this kind of shit on their site
Eventually as I kept reading, it stopped being so ridiculous. I started to draw parallels to my own life, to experiences I had, to the way girls I knew behaved. It wasn't confirmation bias because I still didn't believe RP, it's just so much of what was said mirrored exactly what I'd experienced, but now it was presented in a new light. I was also impressed by how well written a lot of the posts and manosphere blogs were, if these were virgin teenage neckbeards, then they seemed like some pretty educated guys.
I slowly started to realise, hey, maybe some of the things these guys say are right... They're pretty spot on about some things.
Then "some of the things" became "most of the things" and then "almost all of the things". Before I knew it I was thinking about redpill theory all the time, accepting it, ranting to my friends about it, realising it was correct. I'd become a redpiller by accident, and only because I truly believed the things they were saying were correct. I wasn't forced into any of it, I hadn't really experienced too much trauma from women, I wasn't really that bitter about it all, it just made sense in a way such as I didn't need to force myself to believe it....
It took a lot of effort and mental willpower to disregard my previous, comfortable programming and convert over to red. I struggled with it for a while. "Does this mean I hate women?" "Am I a misogynist?", "What if people find out?". It was only after a long time did I realise that I wasn't a woman hater, but rather that's just what I would be called if I told people I didn't believe in their way of thinking. If I told my mom I wasn't religious she would call me stupid and an immoral person, I know (or hope) I'm not immoral and don't do bad things, but she would call me immoral nevertheless. I realised that bloopers will call me a misogynist for the same reason, they see anyone who doesn't subscribe to their worldview as women hating. That's what they've been taught.
I've found that the people who end up "converting" to TRP tend to be the smart ones who began to question authority. They questioned the programming, and they allowed themselves to be convinced otherwise through shared stories from other men, discussion and debate. They took both of these worldviews, weighed them up against each other, and chose red.
The guys who arrive and don't convert are too far gone. They aren't smart/willfull enough to question their programming/authority and they stay in their comfortable space. I'm of the opinion that BPers are the type of people who are easily indoctrinated/don't question what they've been told often. Optimists. Too trusting. It's a nice quality, but as we all know, people will take advantage of those qualities.
And the reconversion rate is low. I know of no Terpers who were red and then went back. There are a few posts by guys on TBP or some male subs, but there aren't many, at all. One would think that if TRP really was wrong and it fucked up the lives of the guys who believed it, and the people around them, you'd hear constant horror stories from ex-terpers or their loved ones. You would have people on the TRP or BP or PPD subreddits saying and posting things like "I am an ex terper and this shit DOES NOT work, it will mess you up".
There would be an (EDIT: active)"/r/extrp", there would be Bluepill ex terpers insisting from experience the dogma is bad, they would try with all their effort to make sure guys don't fall into the same fucked up trap. I'm sure there would be a few who would work to make sure young impressionable guys don't make the same mistakes.
But they don't. There are very few ex terpers. In fact the more redpill you become the more you stray away from the subreddit. Besides some oldies that work to keep the sub consistent, the turnover of posters is high. Betas arrive at the subreddit, they learnt shit, apply it, it works, and then they leave. Guys who managed to get their shit together don't need more self help, occasionally they post some advice or a "x year follow up", but they never stick around for too long. Alphas don't spend ALL their time on Internet forums.
And TRP doesn't keep people through cult like techniques either. They don't shame apostates or keep doubters scared and worried of retaliation. It's not Scientology. It's not cult-like because it's anonymous. A guy can get up and leave any time. A guy who's life got fucked by TRP can at any time turn around and make a "I tried this shit and it made my life WORSE" post on an opposing sub.
But there aren't many of them. At all. There are no outspoken "reformed" pillers. There are so few guys deserting that It lead me to believe that TRP really does work, it produces results in the way we want results. If TRP really was fucked up and bad for the health of everyone involved, where are all the people who were smart enough to pull out and tell everyone of their mistake? The only real RP haters are the ones who hate by default, before even trying to understand, before looking at the philosophy with a critical/open mind. That's like saying atheism is wrong because religious people hate it. The religious people aren't even being fair to the atheist way of thinking or taking it seriously, because they are so programmed in their own ways.
I implore all the ex terpers who hate the sub to come out and tell us your stories. I'd like to see how many of you there actually are. And the BPers, how many of you have actually sat and read through the top posts/side bar with a neutral mindset? I'm pretty sure a lot of you have convinced yourself a post/article is wrong/misogynist before you even read it. You read for the outrage porn and validation, not to actually question your beliefs. I'm sure many of you are still in that mindset even reading this. I used to do it too, but there's only so much... truth...you can read before you start to accept it.
Discuss. I'll try and reply to comments but new account means I'm limited in speed for a while.
TL:DR; the lack of apostate RPers disproves the idea that RP ruins and damages lives, in fact it strengthens the validity of RP philosophy.
EDIT:I think it may have been a mistake to mention media at the beginning of my post, as that may just result in people nitpicking my examples and ignoring the overall point. What I'm trying to get at with that explanation is that bluepill thinking is the default and it's taught to us at school and through the media. Nearly all westerners start off as bluepill. I may make a post about it that specific point another time but I don't think this is the place to expand further on this line of thinking. I don't want us to get too distracted through arguing about media that we end up not addressing the post in its entirety.
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